There are 16 papers in this collection from the Division of Bibliographic Control: (1) "Report from the Section on Cataloging" (Tom Delsey); (2) "Section on Bibliography Report" (B. C. Bloomfield); (3) "Report from the Section on Classification and Indexing" (Robert P. Holley); (4) "The Cost of Cataloging" (French and English versions; Genevieve…

This study analyzes the sociocultural factors that affect translations of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) from English into four other languages, i.e., Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, and Turkish. The study was performed in three stages: each entry in each translation was compared with the edition of DDC on which it was based; each class of…

The library media program presented in this booklet is intended to equip students and interested users of the card catalog with basic library skills. It has been designed to assist classroom teachers and library media specialists in teaching and disseminating information on the card catalog using Dewey Decimal skill activities. Contents of the…

In continuation of the "Cumulated UDC Supplement - 1964" published by the International Federation for Documentation, this document provides a cumulative supplement to the Universal Decimal Classification for 1965-1975. This fifth volume of a five volume series lists new classification subdivisions in the following subject areas: (1) various…

The stress of this symposium was on the role of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) and other indexing languages, especially in multilingual and multidisciplinary information systems, rather than on its potential uses in mechanized retrieval systems. The consensus of the Symposium was: (1) that a system like the UDC cannot, without major…

Determines book obsolescence rates for instructional departments within university by analyzing annual library's circulation and relating patterns of library use to curricular programs. Immediacy and intensity of peak usage, use dispersion, and commonality of use were used to develop acquisition priority weighting formula. Twenty-two sources and…

Discusses cataloging policy at the University of Alabama libraries that allows the acceptance of LC (Library of Congress) classification call numbers from OCLC cataloging into the local database without shelflisting, and describes a study that measured error rates for locally unshelflisted samples to determine the disarrangement of the local…

The item response function (IRF) for a polytomously scored item is defined as a weighted sum of the item category response functions (ICRF, the probability of getting a particular score for a randomly sampled examinee of ability theta). This paper establishes the correspondence between an IRF and a unique set of ICRFs for two of the most commonly…

This new edition of the Carnegie Classification of Higher Education groups American colleges and universities according to their missions and similarity of their programs and purposes. In this 1994 edition, for the first time, institutions are classified according to the highest level of degree conferred, and a new category is introduced--tribal…

The acquisition of expertise involves the adoption of a between-systems problem-solving approach. A between-systems problem-solving approach involves (1) category restructuring; (2) analogy formation; and (3) solution construction using symmetrical and asymmetrical mapping information. Category restructuring permits the expert to reframe the…

A discussion of markedness in English questions the value of markedness theory in constructing explanatory models of linguistic meaning. It challenges the claim that pairs of terms in sentences are in a single type of relation (marked/unmarked) that accounts for all differences between the two terms, including differences in use in measure…

The Monte Carlo study compared the performance of predictive discriminant analysis (PDA) and that of logistic regression (LR) for the two-group classification problem. Prior probabilities were used for classification, but the cost of misclassification was assumed to be equal. The study used a fully crossed three-factor experimental design (with…

THE FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF THIS DOCUMENT: As the number of software programs grows--and current estimates put the number at around 30,000--identifying a particular program can be a problem. R.R. Bowker Company, the administrator of the U.S. ISBN agency, has announced one solution to the identity problem--it will assign International…

Peay presented a class of grouping methods based on the concept of the r-clique for symmetric data relationships. The concepts of the r-clique can be generalized readily to directed (or asymmetric) relationships, and groupings based on this generalization may be found conveniently using an adoption of Peay's methodology. (Author/BJG)

In two experiments on whether similarity grouping is based on the retinal or the perceived slopes of lines, observers judged the grouping of diagonal lines when a display of vertical and diagonal lines was presented upright and when it was slanted 75 degrees toward the floor. (Editor/RK)